New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems.

Sea temperatures also stay warm for longer, pushing autumn plankton blooms until later in the year. Not all phytoplankton and zooplankton species are responding the same way to climate change.

Q: Why is the plankton in the oceans dying? And what does this mean for the health of the oceans and marine life?A: As the lowest link on the marine food chain, plankton – that tiny aquatic ...

Marine plankton tell the long story of ocean health, and maybe human too. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230106144455.htm.

Coccolithophores are microscopic photosynthetic plankton that construct intricate shells for themselves out of calcium carbonate plates. By drawing colossal amounts of calcium and carbon out of ...

Phytoplankton populations in the Indian Ocean fell 30 percent over the last 16 years largely due to global warming, new research suggests. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

Plankton comes in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic to several inches. Some larger jellyfish are considered planktonic. Plankton are the building blocks of life in the sea.

Crucial plankton have been discovered behaving strangely, but they may point the way to better geoengineering It's not just warming oceans we need to worry about.

There have also been no widespread changes to the plankton levels in the Atlantic Ocean, said David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Record Survey, which was established in 1931 to measure ...